Jonathan Harb, CEO and creative director of the computer graphics company Whiskytree Inc., will present “From Boone to the Big Screen” at the Power of Design lecture Oct. 5 at Appalachian State University.

The purpose of the conference is to create collaborative action that leads to collective impact on non-profits in the High Country.

The Appalachian State University community will celebrate 2015 homecoming with old and new traditions, including the homecoming blood drive, parade and APPtoberfest.

Poet and editor R.T. Smith, who is the 2015-16 Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University, will read from his work Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Table Rock Room as part of the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.

Prospective students and their families are invited to experience life at Appalachian State University at Fall Open House, Sept. 26, in Holmes Convocation Center.

How the life stories of colonized peoples reclaim and transform the humanities today and how they affect the multicultural landscape burgeoning in western North Carolina is the topic of the Third Annual Humanities Symposium.

Members of the University of Zululand Choir from Durban, South Africa, gave a lunch-time performance Sept. 9 in the dining facility in Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union.

Appalachian State University has once again received top honors in U.S. News and World Report 2016 rankings related to the university’s academics, cost, retention and graduation rates, value and other factors.

Never take your college education for granted, students at Appalachian State University were told during fall convocation Sept. 3. That caveat was delivered by Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” which was selected for the university’s Common Reading Program this year.